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Malmo & Company Nursery building, 1925
Norwegian immigrant Charles Malmo (1862-1938) established the Malmo Seed and Nursery Company in Seattle in 1893. Malmo propagated nursery stock of ornamental shrubs, which previously had to be imported from Japan, Holland, and England. In the 1920s, Malmo sold seeds and nursery stock from a store at 6th Avenue and Stewart Street at Westlake, and at his Georgetown rhododendron fields…
ID Number:1997.4.3
Date:1925
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Seattle Photo-Engravers Union engravers picnic, Lake Wilderness, 1938
In the summer of 1938, members of the Seattle Photo-Engravers Union and their families gathered at Lake Wilderness for their annual picnic, and posed for this informal panoramic group photo. The men, women, and children show a variety of ages and clothing styles.Lake Wilderness, near Maple Valley, Washington, became a popular resort area in the 1920s. Handwritten on verso: Photo…
ID Number:1997.18.99
Date:1938
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Seattle Photo-Engravers Union picnic, August 3, 1941
On August 3, 1941, members of the Seattle Photo-Engravers Union and their families gathered at an unidentified park for their annual picnic. Seattle photographer Joseph J. Kneisle took this panoramic informal photo of the group. The men, women, and children show a variety of ages, clothing styles, and moods. Handwritten on negative: Annual Picnic * Seattle Photo-Engravers * August 3d,…
ID Number:1997.18.100
Date:1941
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Miners posing at Coal Creek, Newcastle, March 12, 1915
The history of coal in Puget Sound is tied to the development and expansion of the railroad in the West. Locomotives burned coal, and coal, which is heavy and bulky, could not be transported without the railroad. These two industries grew together in the region, the health of each enabling the growth of both. One the largest mines in the…
ID Number:1998.19.1
Date:1915
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Employees posing in front of Gold Medal Milk Co., Seattle, circa 1935
The Gold Medal Milk Company (also known as Gold Medal Dairies, Inc. and Golden Rule Dairy and Bakery), a dairy distributer, was located first in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood at 269 Florentia Street, and later in Ballard at 5500 14th Avenue NW. This image was likely taken at the Ballard location, and the man standing in the center of the group,…
ID Number:1999.17.1
Date:Circa 1935
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Coal miners posing on the surface at Ravensdale mine, circa 1910
Underground coal mining at the Ravensdale Mine was begun around 1899 by the Seattle and San Francisco Railway and Navigation Company. In 1900 the Northern Pacific Railroad (NPRR) built a rail line to the area, making coal mining much more financially feasible. NPRR created a subsidiary corporation, the Northwestern Improvement Company, which purchased the Ravensdale mine and built up the…
ID Number:1999.48.1
Date:Circa 1910
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Construction of ship shed for battleship USS Nebraska, Moran Brothers shipyard, 1902
In 1901, the Moran Brothers shipyard of Seattle won the bid to build one of three battleships for the US Navy. To accommodate the construction of so large a vessel, the shipyard, located at the foot of South Charles Street, required major renovations. A large quantity of heavy tools and equipment was purchased, and a ship shed was built with…
ID Number:2000.87.21.22
Date:1902
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Battleship Nebraska under construction at Moran Brothers shipyard, Seattle, circa 1903
In 1901, the Moran Brothers shipyard of Seattle won the bid to build one of three battleships for the US Navy. The keel for the battleship, named Nebraska, was laid on July 4, 1902, and the ship launched from the Moran Brothers yard on October 7, 1904. This photo shows early construction on the battleship Nebraska inside its construction shed.…
ID Number:2000.87.21.30
Date:Circa 1903
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Production worker Steve Taylor at Aldus checking packages of PageMaker, June 1, 1987
Aldus Corporation was a software company founded in Seattle by Paul Brainerd in 1984 that developed PageMaker, one of the earliest desktop publishing (DTP) software products, which was released in July of 1985. The company is named after fifteenth-century Venetian printer Aldus Manutius. Three former Aldus executives (Jeremy Jaech, Dave Walter, and Ted Johnson) left the company to establish Axon…
ID Number:2000.107.005.34.01
Date:1987
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Melanie Anderson in her firefighting gear, Seattle, July 2, 1981
Melanie Anderson, shown here in her firefighting jacket and helmet, was one of seven women to join the Seattle Fire Department in July 1981, the largest group of women to make it through the program thus far, bringing the total number of female firefighters in the department to 24. Their success was attributed, in part, to a special training program…
ID Number:2000.107.008.06.04
Date:1981